Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...belief of others. "They are frightened by the unruly aspect we present and they suspect us of a certain moral and intellectual bankruptcy. They are attracted by the apparent smoothness and efficiency of a society where conformity is the rule and where all men walk in step. That is why Soviet Communism can seriously challenge us for world leadership. The time has come when we shall have to put up or shut...
Eulogies. Peace was the rule in both Houses. The new Republicans were still moving cautiously and quietly, like new boys in school. Old Republicans were happily important at being in the majority and the Democrats were almost as happy at the thought of the party sniping which was to be their pleasure & privilege. Neither party was ready to start the partisan fighting. The result was a ponderous and overwhelming spectacle. No man is ever as lofty, as noble, as pure of soul and mellifluous of voice as a Congressman being polite, and last week they were polite en masse...
...next President or Vice President. Wisconsin's Alexander Wiley, the new Republican chairman of the Judiciary Committee, was one who seemed thus slightly bemused. It did not affect his hardheadedness in promising to end the "grossly lopsided political character" which the federal bench had assumed under Democratic rule. But when a group of Wisconsin reporters asked his opinion of the coming presidential race he sighed and said: "As for me, my fate is in the lap of the gods...
...knew how deeply the Sudanese hate the Egyptians, who still call them Abed (slaves) in memory of the times when Sudanese tribesmen were sold down the river to the slave marts of Alexandria and Cairo. The British also knew the value to Britain of the Sudan under sympathetic native rule...
...Necessitated by the new system," said Weld, "is a now rule whereby a member who misses five meetings, or three, without notifying the secretary, is automatically considered for removal...